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Top 3 Stories This Morning: Klout, Foursquare, Google+ & TED Global

Welcome to this morning's edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.

For Klout — the startup that measures the influence of social media users — to integrate your Foursquare checkins into its algorithm, go to your Klout profile page and click on the grayed-out Foursquare button.

At TED Global in in Edinburgh, Scotland, musician Imogen Heap demonstrated a new way of creating music by using a pair of gloves equipped with lots of technology. Gesturing with her hands and moving her body, she produced a song with that included several effects and sounds from various instruments.

Visual.ly, a startup that lets you find and create infographics with all kinds of web-based data, launched Wednesday. Right now, you can use Visual.ly’s Twitter tool to generate infographics based on yours and others’ Twitter usage.

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